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by jjmarr 2y ago
Criminals aren't immune to pitch decks and overspending on bespoke systems??
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> Neither was the case with me. If you want intellectual stimulation, just go talk to the professors! Many of the professors don't make their own slides. They just read stuff someone else wrote and pretend to understand it. Then the
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by jjmarr 2y ago
At American gas stations, if you have a Canadian credit card, you type in 00000 because Canadians don't have ZIP codes.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
A lot of younger people today would be surprised you can remove a digital clock from its case and it'll still work. Like, a phone or any piece of technology is just a black box. If it breaks nowadays, you're expected to throw it a
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> Down side: Your peers aren't as smart, and your peers are really what push you to work on interesting projects. This outweighs pretty much everything else for me. Your ego either inflates to infinity because you're a big fish
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> That’s why the Carnegies and Mellons built libraries, museums, and the very literally named Carnegie-Mellon university, back then. Now it seems like the first thing billionaires today do is isolate themselves and their wealth from the
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by jjmarr 2y ago
MediaWiki doesn't have full WYSIWYG. The Visual Editor is nice, but doesn't support templates.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The issue is "people who view themselves as good with computers" self-select into jobs in the technology industry. This means we don't have any ambassadors for technological process improvements in the average business.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> Couldn't we have planted forests, from which we take the grown trees and put them back down under the earth, in some old mining facilities or dig some tunnels that lead deep down and put that stuff there? This is basically how coa
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by jjmarr 2y ago
So, the customer did a chargeback with their bank, won, and you want Stripe to eat the loss? If I pay for something with a credit card and win a dispute with my bank, should Visa do its own investigation? And if Visa's investigation is
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Your objection assumes that there is an inherent value to accurate predictions, independent of being able to use those predictions to make decisions.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> This is why we have problems with our current predictions markets, e.g. the stock market (insider trading, etc.) A unit of stock represents a legal claim on a company's assets even in the absence of a market for that stock. In man
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The "random people" are exposed to countersuits/liability in the event of a loss. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judges-litigation-fundi... > Connolly ultimately concluded that the arrangements
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> I don't want to speculate but here's wild speculation.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Good UX is a moat. Otherwise we'd be in the year of the Linux desktop.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
ChatGPT is an amazing name. Extremely percussive.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Being socially expected to raise kids is a form of discrimination.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
This has existed for 100s of years, historically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The gender pay gap disappears when you control for hours worked, job seniority, and experience. So, why do women work less hours than men and have less experience? That's still an issue even if it's not directly sexist. If we read
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Depends on major. I'm in engineering so it's more work than a full time job for whatever reason.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I didn't even know this until now. I looked at her resume and I can't grasp how she's been doing an undergraduate degree from 2019-2023, meaning that writing an entire GPU driver is the side project she made during her degree
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's a similar situation because the laws aren't enforceable against the pop-up stores in the same way you can't sue an anonymous subreddit moderator from being discriminatory. > Likewise, would Reddit force the moderators
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> But as per your comments, it does sound like you're making the claim that this activity is running afoul of nondiscrimination laws. I edited my original comment because others have pointed out it doesn't run afoul of antidisc
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The issue is that individual subreddit moderators each control hundreds of subreddits with millions of users. If 10% of the top subreddits ban anyone that participates in /r/Judaism or /r/Israel, that's a much bigge
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by jjmarr 2y ago
You're correct (as you pointed out elsewhere), so I edited my original comment.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
You are right, thank you for the citation. edit: there's another comment chain you might be interested in about whether the federal civil rights act is applicable.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
My point is that platforms should have more of a responsibility when they currently have none. > But you're fundamentally misunderstanding the law's purpose: to protect platforms from liability for user content while preserving
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I agreed with you. If Reddit wanted to ban certain types of posts, they're entitled to under the First Amendment. They're not entitled to discriminate against certain races, ethnicities, or religions though. https://har
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's on a state-by-state basis.[1] In California in particular, courts have ruled online businesses that are public accommodations cannot discriminate:[2] > The California Supreme Court held that entering into an agreement with an o
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I don't like Section 230 because "actual knowledge" no longer matters, as tech companies willfully blind themselves to the activities on their platforms. ~~As an example, there are subreddits like /r/therewasanattem

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